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This photo is a combination of three consecutive exposures of White Point Beach in the Atlantic Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Canada shortly after sunrise on September 12, 2010. I like the otherworldly quality of this image.

The Method To My Madness:The three exposures were brought into PhotoShop as separate layers in a single document. Via the use of layer masks and varying the blend modes and opacity I was able achieve the image you see before you. I also switched over to LAB mode and went to channels, selected the lightness channel and applied a small amount of unsharp mask to that channel to bring out a bit more detail. By sharpening in this manner you don’t get the weird halo artifacts that you would just sharpening the whole image in RGB mode. After doing this I went back to RGB mode to save the final results.

I personally think you should, it’s kind of distracting and I wasn’t sure if it was a bird or a speck. But that’s just my opinion and others may think otherwise :)

I agree, Nicole. I fixed it and uploaded the new file. When I have it open in photoshop you can see the shape of the bird better, but on here it does look like a distracting speck. Thanks for your input.